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...decisions on whether to shift budget strategy, of course, would be taken by Ronald Reagan, who has made the budget less the symbol than the sword of his struggle to reverse the direction of Government. The President astonished even his own supporters by his sweeping victories last year - but that was be fore the recession and the estimates of towering deficits. This year's battle of the bulge will be an entirely new campaign. - By George J. Church...
Ellen V. Futter, president of Barnard, called the decision "a tremendous triumph," adding that "for the first time, we can look forward to a long-term stable relationship with Columbia without the sword of possible merger hanging over our head," according to an article in Saturday's New York Times...
...Kremlin kept constant pressure on the Poles with sallies of vituperative propaganda, sword-rattling threats and hints that a reduction of Soviet economic aid might put some backbone into Warsaw's fainthearted leadership. Kania was summoned to Moscow and lectured at least three times. He and his fellow centrists were forced to perform a precarious high-wire act: on the one hand, they sought to accommodate demands for liberalizations coming from Solidarity and from their own rank and file; on the other, they had to protect themselves against Warsaw party hard-liners and convince the Soviets that they were still...
...trying to make Israel hostage to the memorandum of understanding. No sword of Damocles will be hanging over our heads. The people of Israel have lived for 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it for another 3,700 years...
...second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4--fluid and passionate. The notes move stepwise, with many minor seconds--the smallest interval between consecutive notes in Western music. After a short figure that resembles a melody from On the Waterfront, the music becomes faster with music reminiscent of the "Sword Dance" from the "Dance of the Young Kurds" in Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet (the same note repeated evenly for 15 times...